I spoke about Peril at a panel today titled “The Revolution will be downloaded”. Rachel Hills talked about using the web to promote yourself and interconnect with people, and Angela Meyer talked about her cultural blog literary-minded. James Stuart talked about New Media and really was the only one who used multimedia in a creative way to make interactive art work with words, sound and three dimensional graphics. It made me realise that I should pay a little bit more attention to my blog if I want to utilise it properly.
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This week I have had some exciting project possibilities come my way. Kit Lazaroo has generously offered to assist dramaturgy work on Silence with me over a year or more to develop the script further. And Simon Charles a very talented composer wants to collaborate with me on an opera- another multi year project. Even though I thought I would concentrate more on novel writing these projects still resonate and excite me even more. In both these projects Kit and Simon want to explore the artistic possibilities of expressing Buddhism, Kit in the theatrical dramatic sense, Simon in the musical. And I? In my novel the lady of the realm I am exploring the novel form as a cyclic and linear experience, and meditating on the heart sutra which coincidentally my sangha group is also looking at. Or maybe it’s not a coincidence. The heart sutra is a central text in Buddhism and I read it at my grandfather’s funeral in 1996. His last words were “form is emptiness, emptiness is form” referring to how we go beyond notions of life and death to reach nirvana, the other shore.